On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Bill Miller <bill_mil...@byu.edu> wrote:
>
> Windows 7 likes to have the BOOTMGR on a different partition than the
> main OS. During install, it will either create a small boot partition,
> or if it finds another partition already there, it will install BOOTMGR
> to that partition. Your BOOTMGR is most likely in your Recovery
> Partition. Try pointing grub there and see if it will boot Windows.
>
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That would explain the small 16.69 MB partition with an unknown (to
gparted) filesystem. I've tried the following with grub.
menuentry "Windows 7" {
set root='(hd0,X)'
chainloader +1
}
Where I've replaced X with various numbers.
When it's 1, I get the BOOTMGR missing error.
2, grub says "no such partition."
3 loads the recovery system.
4, 5, and 6, grub says, "invalid signature."
This is what my hard drive looks like at the moment from within
gparted, in order from front to back of the drive space.
/dev/sda1 is ntfs, my windows partition. It has a boot flag.
/dev/sda2 is an extended partition containing /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6
/dev/sda5 is ext4, Ubuntu. No flags.
/dev/sda6 is linux-swap. No flags
/dev/sda3 is fat32, 10 gigabytes. I'm pretty sure this is the
recovery partition because grub think's it's "Windows Vista (loader)".
Has the "hidden" flag.
/dev/sda4 is unknown, and a small 16.7 megabytes. Also "hidden" flag.
I've never touched or moved sda3 or sda4 since I've had the computer.
So if /dev/sda4 is the BOOTMGR, I've never touched it. Would Windows
7, having been partially "recovered," not be looking for BOOTMGR way
back towards the end of the disk? Or would it have been reinstalled
on the next available partition, my linux one?
Timothy
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